Embedded Linux / High-Compute Engineer
We’re ALTEN Technology USA, an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.
As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.
When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you’ll collaborate on some of the world’s toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.
As a Embedded Linux / High-Compute Engineer, you will be responsible for sustaining software for production automotive ECUs. The main job is handling component changes (obsolete parts, memory swaps, second sources) that affect ECU software or manufacturing test, and supporting production at the contract manufacturer. Take over existing codebases, make and validate the changes, and document the process so it can run independently.
Qualifications;
- 5+ years of automotive embedded software
- Has supported production at a contract manufacturer: deploying test updates, debugging line failures, reading yield data
- Can judge whether a component change needs a software change, then carry it through validation
- Automotive change control (PPAP, DV/PV, deviations)
- Hands-on bench debugging with standard lab tools
- Works independently and writes SOPs/runbooks as part of the job
- Embedded Linux on automotive SoCs; QNX or Android a plus
- Storage bring-up: partitioning, device tree, boot flow for eMMC/UFS/SSD/DRAM changes
- Yocto (or similar) builds, CI pipelines, multi-repo workflows
- Secure boot and signed-image flows
- Nice to have: Qualcomm, NXP i.MX or NVIDIA platforms; has taken over a legacy codebase with thin documentation
Salary Range: $130K - $140K
The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate’s combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.
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